Source for cigarette lighter plugs

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Joel Kolstad

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Does anyone know where I might purchase a small quantity of 12V cigarette
lighter plugs that contain enough extra room in the housing to build in a
regulator circuit? I have a device with somewhat bizarre input voltage
requirements and hence can't use one of the (many!) off-the-shelf 12V
adapters. I'd prefer to find just a bare plug with space inside, but I'd be
up for hacking apart something that already had circuitry inside (and
throwing it out) if it were cheap enough (<$5?).

Thanks,
---Joel Kolstad
 
Answered my own question... All Electronics has old Motorola cell phone 7.5V
adapters that could be hacked for all of $2.

---Joel
 
"Joel Kolstad" <JKolstad71HatesSpam@Yahoo.Com> writes:

Does anyone know where I might purchase a small quantity of 12V cigarette
lighter plugs that contain enough extra room in the housing to build in a
regulator circuit? I have a device with somewhat bizarre input voltage
requirements and hence can't use one of the (many!) off-the-shelf 12V
adapters. I'd prefer to find just a bare plug with space inside, but I'd be
up for hacking apart something that already had circuitry inside (and
throwing it out) if it were cheap enough (<$5?).
Click to expand...
Mendelsons...I bet. With 1.5E6ft^2....


www.meci.com

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Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
 
David Lesher wrote:

"Joel Kolstad" <JKolstad71HatesSpam@Yahoo.Com> writes:


Does anyone know where I might purchase a small quantity of 12V cigarette
lighter plugs that contain enough extra room in the housing to build in a
regulator circuit? I have a device with somewhat bizarre input voltage
requirements and hence can't use one of the (many!) off-the-shelf 12V
adapters. I'd prefer to find just a bare plug with space inside, but I'd be
up for hacking apart something that already had circuitry inside (and
throwing it out) if it were cheap enough (<$5?).


Mendelsons...I bet. With 1.5E6ft^2....


www.meci.com
Click to expand...
I've never heard of these people before. Do they have a track record
with you? How is it?

--

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com
 
On Tue, 04 May 2004 08:38:54 -0700, the renowned Tim Wescott
<tim@wescottnospamdesign.com> wrote:

David Lesher wrote:

"Joel Kolstad" <JKolstad71HatesSpam@Yahoo.Com> writes:


Does anyone know where I might purchase a small quantity of 12V cigarette
lighter plugs that contain enough extra room in the housing to build in a
regulator circuit? I have a device with somewhat bizarre input voltage
requirements and hence can't use one of the (many!) off-the-shelf 12V
adapters. I'd prefer to find just a bare plug with space inside, but I'd be
up for hacking apart something that already had circuitry inside (and
throwing it out) if it were cheap enough (<$5?).


Mendelsons...I bet. With 1.5E6ft^2....


www.meci.com


I've never heard of these people before. Do they have a track record
with you? How is it?
Click to expand...
They've been around forever. A surplus house.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com
 
Tim Wescott <tim@wescottnospamdesign.com> writes:

David Lesher wrote:

"Joel Kolstad" <JKolstad71HatesSpam@Yahoo.Com> writes:


Does anyone know where I might purchase a small quantity of 12V cigarette
lighter plugs that contain enough extra room in the housing to build in a
regulator circuit? I have a device with somewhat bizarre input voltage
requirements and hence can't use one of the (many!) off-the-shelf 12V
adapters. I'd prefer to find just a bare plug with space inside, but I'd be
up for hacking apart something that already had circuitry inside (and
throwing it out) if it were cheap enough (<$5?).


Mendelsons...I bet. With 1.5E6ft^2....


www.meci.com

I've never heard of these people before. Do they have a track record
with you? How is it?
Click to expand...

I've been buying stuph from them for 30 years. I have never, I am
ashamed to say, been in their store, but know it's ENORMOUS. (It
was Kettering's factory, I think.) They set up large tents at the
Dayton Hamvention, and I also buy mail order.

My only unhappiness with them was when they were out of stock of
what I wanted....because I'd procrastinated.

--
A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com
& no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
 
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